Anyone having luck with Vista??

I just got my shiny new eVGA 8800GT and decided to install Vista to see how good DX 10 is. Vista seems alot more responsive than XP and I get 9300 in 3Dmark 06 but so far gaming has been a bust. While playing Bioshock my system system reboots and I get blue screens in Crysis. Im using the latest drivers and even tried the new beta driver from nVidia. I dont have any of these problems in XP Pro. These games do look alot better in DX 10 but its not worth the hassle.

Unfortunately Vista drivers are still a work in progress. In the particular case of graphics vendors, they have taken almost a full year to ship 3d drivers that are in the same quality level as XP (for a wide selection of titles). Right now I would say you should not be having too many problems if you use the latest drivers from either Nvidia or ATI although DX10 is still a bit slower than DX9.

My suggestion is you try the newer drivers and force DX9 if you come upon a glitch or performance issue. It's really not as bad as it seems...

I have no problems with Vista and my 8800GTS 320 in Crysis with DX10. I don't know what to tell you aside from crap you already know like make sure you have the latest drivers for chipsets and video card and check for any game patches.

I just figured out the problem. In my rig, Vista is completely intollerant of overclocking. Once I set the CPU and bus speeds back to normal, the gaming issues cleared up. Performance also took a nose dive. Ive also found out that Creative hasnt been able to come up with Audigy drivers that give their cards full functionality in Vista so Im stuck with 2 channel sound and no EAX controls or bass/treble adjustments. And Logitech isnt going to write Vista drivers for my MX700 mouse. I'm going back to XP.

My mobo has a 4 pin Molex connector just above the PCI-E slots I never paid much attention to. It turns out its to give more juice to the video cards. I hooked it up and I can OC in Vista now. Im suprised Vista needs so much more power, especially since Im using the Basic version without Aero Glass

I just figured out the problem. In my rig, Vista is completely intollerant of overclocking. Once I set the CPU and bus speeds back to normal, the gaming issues cleared up. Performance also took a nose dive. Ive also found out that Creative hasnt been able to come up with Audigy drivers that give their cards full functionality in Vista so Im stuck with 2 channel sound and no EAX controls or bass/treble adjustments. And Logitech isnt going to write Vista drivers for my MX700 mouse. I'm going back to XP.

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The MX700, if you tell Logitech that your mouse isn't charging right or something, they will send you a MX Revolution. I had a MX700 and it wasn't re charging right so they replaced it with a MX Revolution. Which has Vista compatible drivers.